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Bootstraps leftist ideology lmao
In a way, unironically yes. Autonomous development, as opposed to Grifter Leftist ideology or Social Democracy For Just Me with extra steps.
If you aspire to lead a country to socialism, you should at least be able to put something on a smaller scale into practice which is consistent with your ethics. It is literally scientific socialism: making experiments about how to materially advance a socialist prospect, as opposed to aesthetics of science and flimsy claims made ex post facto about history.
What is building a vanguard party in general if not bootstrapping it? You start completely out of power, and you find a way to power. You're going to need a bunch of intermediate steps, and those will require you to strategize and sweat. If you believe that the masses will just suddenly get behind you when they see you have the right ideas, you're a lib. Depending on spontaneous revolutionary fervor and allegiance is miraculous, wishful thinking. Every revolution must be built, it does not fall into your lap or just get seized at one discontinuous moment.
Spend your life oriented around the patterns of begging, or beat the capitalists at the game of production/self-sustenance. We know the latter is possible because we developed as a species without capitalism. Nut up or shut up.
Living on a commune with your comrades is bootstrapping now?